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V L. B. PRAHAR. CATCH FOR GHATBLAINB OR SIMILAR BAGS.

No. 423,630. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS B. PRAHAR, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

CATCH FOR CHATELAINE oR SIMILAR BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 423,630, dated March 18, 1890.

- Application filed November 8, 1889- Serial No. 329,687- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS B. PRAHAR, of

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Catches for Chatelaine and Similar Bags, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

- My invention relates to an improvementin catches for chatelaine and similar bags, and has for its object to provide a catch or latch, located at the side of the frame, so constructed that it will be practically impossible for the latch to he accidentally manipulated and the bag thereby opened when such action was not intended.

. A further object of the invention is to pro vide a latch of simple,durable, and economic construction.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which'similar letters and figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a partial side elevation of a chatelaine-bag having my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the bag-frame, partially insection, disclosing the latch in the locked position. Fig. 3 is a partial side elevation. of the bag, partly broken away, illustrating the position and action of the stop-plate forming a portion of the latch. Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view of the latchstud, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of a slightlymodified form of the same.

In carrying out the invention a latch-stud the bag In the ture in the frame, a flattened or polygonal section 15, ordinarily of a diameter in one direction corresponding with the diameter of the circular section, and a further reduced section 16, terminating in a latch-head. By reason of the formation of these sections 15 and 16 two other shoulders a and a are obtained, as best shown in Fig; 4. The latchhead section may be straight, as illustrated in Fig. 4, or may be bent to an angular shape, as shown in Fig. 5. passed through one of the frame members and made to approach the opposite member, as illustrated in Fig. 2, a stop-plate 17 is fitted to the flattened section 15 and preferably made to contact with the shoulder a, in which position it is soldered or otherwise secured, essentially contacting at one side with the inner face of the vertical section of the frame member through which the stud is passed, the

said stop being also capable of contacting with the inner face of the horizontal section of the said frame member, as illustrated in Fig. 3.

Instead of soldering the stop-plate to the latch-stud, as describedabove, the shoulders a may be upset to hold said plate in position.

The stop-plate 17 is preferably provided with a convexed or beveled upper edge I), whereby one point will contact with the horizontal or flanged section of the frame when the stud is in its normal position, which is the locked position, and the opposite cut-away end strikes said section and limits the revolution of the stud in the the bag.

The stud A is controlled by a spring18, which spring maybe of any approved formation, one style being illustrated in the drawings in process of opening When the stud has been Fig. 2, and consisting of a wire attached to the latch-head section of the stud at one end, being coiled around the same and having a bearing against the frame member through which the stud is carried. 7 The action of this spring 18 serves to normally cause the higher point of the stop-plate to contact with the horizontal section of the frame member.

Any approvedform of keeper may be provided for the latch-stud--as, for instance, the latch-head may be made to pass through the inner tie-plate 19 of the frame, as shown in Fig.

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2, or the keeper may be formed npon the member of the frame opposed to that through which the latch-stud is carried.

I desire it to be further understood that a 5 housing or boxing may be provided for the spring and stop-plate of the latch, and that while special details of construction have been shown and described an equivalent construction may be substituted without departing o from the spirit of the invention-as, for instance, instead of constructing the latch-head as shown in Fig. 4, the said head maybe made to project beyond both sides of the reduced section 16 of the stud and partake, essentially,

of the contour of an arrow-head.

member of said frame and a spring for con-- trolling the movement of the stud, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the frame of a chatelaine or other bag, of a stud mounted to turn in one member of the frame and provided with a latch-head adapted to engage the other memberof the said frame, a spring for controlling the movement of the stud, and a stop plate secured to the stud and adapted to engage the horizontal flange of the member of the frame in which the stud is mounted, substantially as described.

The combination, with the frame of a 40 chatelaine or other bag, of a stud mounted to turn in one member of the frame and provided with a latch-head for engaging the other member of said frame, a spring for controlling the movement of the stud, and a stop-plate secured to the stud and having a convex or beveled upper edge, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. An improved catch for chatelaine and other bags, consisting of the stud A, having the body portion 11, the reduced circular section 14, the flattened section 15, and thelatchhead section 16, the stop-plate 17, and the spring 18, substantially as herein shown and described.

Louis 1;. PRAHAR.

Witnesses;

J. F. AOKER, Jr., C. SEDGWIOK. 

